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And that’s basically it!
They should place the bullet in glass case with his exact words about sacrificing children for the 2nd Amendment. The last sentence should be, "Yes, he was a sick racist shitbag.
Money was vacuumed from the gullible, of course it was there.
That is fucking ghoulish.
"You could get shot here, too! Just book the full package!"
On the other hand, let's celebrate the fact that Charlie Kirk has not sputtered anything racist in the last months. It's a new record for him!
The left was celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk!
— the very people who made this tent
I always wondered who would take selfies at Auschwitz and now I know.
Auschwitz was the scene of despicable horrors, though. not really the same thing
People do it though. Walk around taking peace sign selfies and posing on the tracks. Ridiculously disrespectful and tacky as fuck.
I see what you did there. Don’t disagree.
I feel like people who support this type of politics are emotionally blunted and stunted. They'll use his death as a tool of martyrdom for their movement, which this is a prime example of, but I don't really feel like anyone loved him or mourned him in any genuine sense. I think it's because they don't really have any attachment to anyone in a real sense. I'm not saying that other people of other beliefs don't use grief as a performative tool either, but I feel like most of the problem with conservatives at the root of it all is blunted emotions.
peak right winger mental gymnastic
Jesus dude this is so disrespectful. And this is someone they actually like.
He was a shit-bag, so its disrespect he deserved.
I feel like Charlie Kirk should be nominated for a Darwin award. Dude literally campaigned for guns, said it was Ok that some people die from gun violence and then got shot while sitting under a tent labelled "prove me wrong".
he had children
EDIT: which means he cannot get the Darwin award. this is not defending him.
Everyone always screws that up. The Darwin award doesn't just mean the person died from their own stupidity, it means they did the world a favor and removed themselves from the gene pool before passing on their genes. By that note, people who are unable to reproduce also cannot be eligible for the award.
I'm a parent too, and that's exactly why I am glad his disgusting voice was silenced in the most public and ironic way possible.
Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award
Ah yeah good edit, I wasn't even considering that you could have meant it that way.
I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award!
Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody's kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one!
I mean, maybe. Depends on when JD got his couch nob in there.
So did John Wayne Gacy, what's your point?
Charlie Kirk's comment about "some gun deaths being necessary" was in response to a comment about school shootings involving small children, wasn't it? I don't remember exactly, why don't you look it up yourself?
Darwin award is for people who make themselves unable to reproduce.
I need to edit the comment in order not to sound like I'm defending him.
Yeah sorry I'm just used to people immediately jumping to defend this guy and make any negative comment about him illegal
no problem, I didn't think enough before posting
It didn't prove him wrong, it just made him one of the "some people."
What a fitting memorial to Charlie Kirk's final words, when he said we shouldn't care so much about gun violence because so many of the people getting shot aren't worth getting upset over. That's an important lesson in irony.
A death cult in this day and age. Can you imagine?
Prove me wrong, LOL.
Did they also sell the “Freedom” shirt he was wearing while being shot?
Real missed merch opportunity if they didn't. Would have been disrespectful to his memory if they didn't cash in.
With the blood stains added, of course
This would be a lot less weird if ck wasn't a fucking horrible human being.
I think it would still be weird. But then I have a photo of my kid smiling in front of the limo JFK died in (at the Henry Ford museum), so maybe I’m wrong.
People have monuments and shrines and stuff all the time, so part of it isn't that weird. It would still be weird how people are treating it though. Taking selfies and shit. It's like the dumbest, most non-self aware people's hot takes, crystallized and evolved into a political party.
But if you believe what he was doing was right, and actually listened to him "debate (uncomfortable public verbal conflict logically) is good", then a public selfie under the tent does make a lot more sense.
Unfortunately for them, THEY are the ones that need the growth, but treat it as a sneaky way to proliferate "values" and "ideas" in a really messed up little chapel. Spreading your worldview under a tent is as old as history, all religions basically do it. So it probably felt holy to a lot of stupid people.
It's a death cult. Makes sense for them to have a shrine to death.
Can we just start publicly call them weird to their faces again? Please!?!? It worked and started to break through their silly imaginary world where they own limbs at a convention for weirdos and kiddie-fiddlers! I don't know why they stopped!
Walz started the trend and it resonated with and energized the base so much to the point where he surged to the spotlight from relative obscurity in a very short amount of time and ended up getting picked as running mate by the Harris campaign.
But then Harris's campaign almost immediately pivoted to the classic strategy of, "damn our base, they're going to vote for us anyway so instead let's appeal hard to the right", despite that consistently being a losing strategy over the last decade or so.
So they told Walz to shut up, just stand there and look pretty and cut it out with the "weird" stuff, it'll alienate voters on the right. Turns out instead they just killed all the momentum growing within their own base while at the same time failing to win the votes of the weirdo cult members wearing ear pads in solidarity with their God king.
Got to be SEEN showing you are on the "right" side and care.
Its like having to pay a tithe to the social media machine in the form of cringey posts that confirm the message desired.